Mountebank vs Quackery - What's the difference?
mountebank | quackery |
One who sells dubious medicines.
One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
* 1951 , publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
To act as a mountebank.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
(legal, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
As nouns the difference between mountebank and quackery
is that mountebank is one who sells dubious medicines while quackery is (legal|medicine|uncountable) the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.As a verb mountebank
is to act as a mountebank.mountebank
English
Noun
(en noun)- There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
- “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”
Quotations
: * (English Citations of "mountebank")See also
* patent medicine * snake oil * quackVerb
(en verb)- Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved'' - ''Coriolanus ,
